The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-14
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

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Clock = An Alligator Which Appro.
GATES Pretty Lasses- Killed by Light.
Eing-A Brave Young Lady-A Negro
Girl With Superiority of Toes.
GEORGIA.
Valdosta is to have "a new passenger de-
pot
Wild goose plums sell readily at 81 per
bushel ON the trees at Mashallville.
T. E. Clement publishes the Rome Clip
per, Clement Bros, having dissolved.
Crops around Bushville are very good.
Farmers are up with their work-are busy
cutting wheat.
HawkinSville has enjoyed a series of re-
ligious meetings, which have been produc-
tive of much good.
The Sabbath school at Bushville is in a
hourishing condition. Mr.. Telford is a
model superintendent
It is rumored that several Griffin parties
were considerable losers in the recent S. H.
Phelan failure in Atlanta
Mr.. McRee has abandoned the idea of
bringing suit against Oconee county. on &C
count of the new court house.
Forestville is TO take vote on annexation
with Printup City. That is good idea,
and the vote should be unanimous.
There is a movement on foot for the es-
tablishing of a savings bank i'll Forestville,
to be run in connection with the furniture
factory.
Two stores were burglarized at Scale Fri
day night and 500 worth of watches and
jewelry and $50 worth of tobacco and cigars
were stolen.
The Board of Visitors recommend the es-
enlistment of school of physical culture
at the Atlanta University. This is the
ground work of gymnasium.
The engineering corps of the c., c. and N
is camped this side of Middle Oconee river,
and will next week run into Athens They
are Strengthening out the line.
Mayor Hodgson. of Macon, has notified
the water works company THAT the city will
not pay rental for the time the water fails
to come up to the legal pressure.
Col. Primus Jones, the great cotton grow
er of Southwest Georgia, has sold his first
bale" this year to Cole, Simkins e. Co., and
guarantees to deliver the same between July
5 and Is.
In the Burnett Hancock murder case in
Crawford, county, Col j; G. Rutherford has
been employed by the defendants, and R.
w. Patterson and Lloyd Moore for the
prosecution.
Waycross Headlight: Night Waterman
Balkcom is on duty again, and with his
sledge-hammer pendulum and circular-saw
regulator chimes the hours of the night as
they go by.
The Macon bicyclists have adopted for a
uniform, black pants, gray shirt, red stock
ings and white helmet. Eight of the boys
will go over to Athens to attend the bicycle
races next month.
A large drove of several hundred sheep
were driven through Americas Saturday
afternoon. They came from one of the
wiregrass counties below there, and were be-
ing driven to some point further up the
country.
The Summerville Gazette says that many
citizens of Chattooga county think that the
testimony did not fix the crime of an as
sault, ON Miss Hendricks, upon Henry Pope
(colored, and that Pope still asserts his en-
tire innocence. y
At the election in the town of Tallapoosa
for Mayor and Councilman, to fill vacan-
cies caused by designations Judge A. l.
Head was elected Mayor and r. M. Strick-
land Councilman-they receiving nearly all
the votes polled.
There are nine turpentine distilleries in
Wilcox county. They turn out about 250 bar
rels week, each barrel containing fifty gall
Ions. There are four barrels of rosin to one
of spirits BY the barrel the spirits sell for
81 lie. per gallon.
Over 300 crates of fruit were shipped from
2hstI SllduNllio Ou hUIufty anu over OUU yes
terday. They went to New York princi-
pally, yet included many intermediate
points. The weeks shipment will possibly
exceed ZOO crates.
The Bushvllle Literary Club will give an
entertainment on July 2 Everybody is in
vited TO attend and bring basket well
filled They have made arrangements to
get good speaker for the occasion. The
club has now good library of choice liter
allure.
The new building of the West Point Man
ufacturing Company, now being erected,
will be 2S2 feet long, so feet wide and three
stories in heighth. 1t will have 260 windows,
which will require 1,040 sashes. The reser-
voir will be placed in a tower and on a hill
adjoining.
The closing exercises of the Tallaoposa
Male and Female Seminary will commence
on June 10 and embrace June 81 and -
DIR. George E. Bonner, of Douglasville, will
preach the commencement sermon. An in
teresting programme is mapped out for the
occasion.
The Montezuma Record SAY, "Taken
all in all, the average piny woods cow is
hard to beat. DIR. r. H. Pate, at Snow,
Dolly county, owns a native COW only two
and half years old, and only one-fourth
Jersey, that gives regularly four gallons of
n1sik per day"
At the conference at the Congregational
Methodist church, in Forestville last Sun
day, DIR. c. S. Harris Rev. F. NJ. Oswalt,
Fred j. Estes and James o. Wimfrey We're
elected delegates to the district conference
which meets at New Bethel church the lat
ter part of July.
AT the meeting of the Americas City
Council, Monday night, the question of ex-
empting the Compress Company from taxa
ton for term of years was again brought
up, resulting in an adverse decision, the
vote standing three to two in favor of tax
ing the company.
The farmers in Baldwin have had good
seasons and are happy in the belief that
this will be good year with crops. Every
thing looks promising, and without a back
set the up-gpowing generation will see, per-
haps, their first real full crop of cotton and
every kind of cereals.
The machinery for the Brunswick ice fac
tory has been shipped from Columbus, and
is expected to arrive to-day. Work on the
factory is progressing finely. The artesian
well at the same is now nearly 100 feet deep.
At the depth of 81 feet a rock was encoun-
tered, which retarded rapid progress some
what
Greensboro Herald: II. c. Thompson, OF
this city is theowner of the finest and the fast
est 3-year-old, perhaps, in Middle Georgia.